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BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

J^OHN Armstrong, President, Maysville, Ky. 
Martin Marshall, Esq. Secretary, Augusta, Ky. 
Johnston Armstrong, Treasurer, Maysville, Ky. 
Rev. Joshua Soule, D. D. Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, Lebanon, Ohio. 

*' George C. Light, Shelbyville, Ky. 

" O. M. Spencer, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

•' J ohn Meek, West Union, Ohio. 

" John Collins, Ohio. 

" Enos Woodward, Mason County, Ky, 

" James Savage, Germantown, Ky. 
John Payne, Esq. Augusta, Ky. 
John Todd, Esq. Augusta, Ky* 
Arthur Thoms, Esq. Augusta, Ky. 
Dr. George W. Mackie, Augusta, Ky, 
Samuel Lewis, Esq. Cincinnati, Ohio. 
William Armstrong, Cincinnati, Ohio« 
John Chambers, Esq. Washington, Ky. 
George Doniphan, Augusta, Ky. 
John Cowgill, Mason County, Ky. 
Marshall Key, Esq. Washington, Ky= 
Zebulon Herman, Augusta, Ky. 
Xoshua Pigman, Ne\rille, Ohio. 
Gideon Minor, Esq. Clermont County, Ohti). 



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FACULTY. 

REV, MARTIN RUTER, D. D. President, 
and Professor of Oriental Languages 
and Belles Lettres, 

Rev. Joseph 8. Tomlinson, A. B. Professor 
of Mathematicks and Natu/ral Philo- 
sophy, 

Rev. John P. Durbin, A. M. Professor of 
Languages^ and of Grecian and Ro- 
man Antiquities, 

Frederick A. W. Davis, M. D. Professor of 
Chymistry and Botany, 

Arnold Truesdell, Preceptor of the Acade' 
mick Department, 



TEACHERS. 

Thomas H. Linch, Assistant in the Acade- 

mick Department, 
John Vincent, Teacher of the Primary 
School 



BY-I.AWIS, «kC. 



Whereas, by the ninth section of the act of incorpo- 
ration, granted by the Legislature of Kentucky, and 
approved December 7, 1822, entitled "An act to incor- 
porate the Trustees of the Augusta College," the said 
Trustees are authorized to make, pass, and establish 
such ordinances, rules, and by-laws, not contrary to the 
Constitution or Laws of this State, as by them shall be 
thought necessary for the government of said College, 
and the instruction of the youth entrusted to their charge ; 
and to delegate to the President and Professors, such 
power and authority as they may think best for the go- 
vernment of the Institution, and the execution of its 
rules and ordinances: Therefore — 

Be it ordained^ That, until the same shall be repealed, 
pursuant to the provisions of said charter, the following 
shall be the by-laws, rules, and regulations, for the go- 
vernment of Augusta College. 

ARTICLE I. 

Of the Trustees, 

Sec. 1. The semi-annual meetings of the Trustees, 
shall be on the first Wednesday in August and Februa- 
ry, in each year; at which all elections of Professors, 
and Preceptors shall take place, unless necessity shall 
require an appointment at some intervening time, which 
shall be only temporary, until a stated semi-annual mee- 
ting. 

Sec. 2. Extraordinary meetings of the* trustees shall 
be convened, whenever the president of the board shall 
direct; of which he shall give due notice by advertising 

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the time in some convenient newspaper, and by the se- 
cretary personally, so far as may be convenient. 

Sec. 3. The rules and regulations of the house of 
representatives of Kentucky, so far as they are applica- 
ble, shall govern the board in its deliberative procee- 
dings. 

Sec, 4. The trustees are to attend at commence- 
xnents, and if practicable, on days of public examina- 
tion and exhibitions. 

Sec, 5, At each semi-annual meeting of the Trustees 
held in February, the following committees shall be ap- 
pointed, to continue during one year, and until a new 
appointment shall be made ; namely, a committee of five, 
to be styled the Superintending Committee, whose duty 
shall be, to superintend the affairs of the College, from 
one meeting of the trustees to another; to collect debts, 
due the institution; to examine the accounts of the 
treasurer, compare the same with the accounts of the 
collector, and report at each semi-annual meeting: — a 
committee of three, to inspect the building and other 
property of the College, and to direct the necessary re- 
pairs to be made:— and a committee of three, to inspect 
the library and philosophical and chymical apparatus, 
to examine the accounts of the librarian, and make re- 
port to the trustees. 

Sec. 6. All monies, bonds, notes, and accounts, shall 
pass to the treasurer through the hands of the collector, 
who shall keep just and true accounts thereof with the 
treasurer, charging him therewith, making a special en- 
try of the description of property deposited with him; 
and shall credit him with all orders drawn on him, and 
all notes and accounts received from him for the pur- 
pose of placing them in the hands of the collecting com- 
mittee; and make report at each semi-annual meeting 
of the trustees. 

Sec. 7. The trustees shall have power, at any time, 
to remove the president, or any of the other instructers, 
for neglect of duty, or improper conduct, after first gi> 



ving him a fair opportunity for excusing or justifying 
himself. 

Sec» 8. All salaries shall be regulated by the board of 
trustees, or by the superintending committee when au- 
thorized so to do by the board. 

Sec, 9. An inspector shall be appointed, whose du- 
ty it shall be, under the direction of the superintending 
committee, to take care of the college buildings and lot, 
to keep the rooms and passages clean, to report injuries 
done, and so far as practicable, the persons doing it, and 
keep the keys of the College. He shall be appointed 
by the trustees, or in time of recess, by the superinten» 
ding committee. 

Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the secretary to pro* 
cure a well bound book, in which shall be drawn up, at 
full length, the proceedings of the board of trustees, the 
reports made by the committees of the board, and such 
other things as the board may direct. 

Sec, 11. There shall be established in Augusta Col^ 
lege, including its various departments, a general course 
of instruction, commencing with the rudiments of Eng- 
lish education. 

Sec, 12. The institution shall be divided into three 
departments, to be known by the following designations, 
viz. The Collegiate Department, The Academick De- 
partment, and The Primary School. 

ARTICLE II. 

Of the Faculty, 

Sec, 1. The faculty shall consist of a president, pro- 
fessors, and a preceptor, for the time being, who shall 
attend faithfully to the professorships and departments 
assigned them by their several appointments. 

Sec, 2. They are responsible to the trustees for the 
full execution of the laws of the Institution, so far as 
committed to them, and for the suitable and faithful in- 
5truction of the students. 



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Bec» 3. They are not to engage in any pursuit or oc* 
Cupation that will interfere with a stated and punctual 
discharge of all their official duties, without the consent 
of the board of trustees. 

Sec, 4. It is the duty of every officer, individually, 
to use his utmost vigilance, and exertions, to carry into 
complete effect every law of the College without excep- 
tion. As he is cloathed with sufficient authority to make 
himself and the laws respected, he is never to suffer any 
violation of a law, known to him, to pass without its due 
reprehension or punishment. 

Sec. 5. The faculty shall designate the books to be 
read, and the course of study to be pursued by the clas- 
ses, during the period of their study. Also, the times 
and number of recitations for each class, and the man- 
ner of conducting the exercises; subject, however, to 
such alterations as the trustees may from time to time 
think proper to direct. 

Sec, 6. It shall be their duty to execute the laws of 
the College ; to reprove, or otherwise punish, such of- 
fences as may arise under them, or any misdemeanors 
which may not in these laws be specially recognized; at 
the same time maintaining that kind of government 
which shall be wholly moral and paternal. But in no 
case shall the faculty alone have the power of expelling 
a student. 

Sec, 7. Whenever a student shall be suspended from 
the College, it shall be the duty of the faculty to com- 
municate the case in writing to the president of the 
board of trustees, within three days after the same shall 
have been decided by the faculty, with a statement of 
the nature and evidence of the offence. 

See, 8. The faculty shall always be considered re- 
sponsible to the board of trustees for their proceedings: 
shall moreover have power to make any regulations for 
the internal government of the College, not contrary to 
the charter of the College, and the by-laws established 
by the trustees, as they may deem expedient, and shall 
record the same, together with all their proceedings, in 



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a book, which they shall lay before the trustees at their 
several meetings; and no act of theirs shall be valid 
until recorded by their order. 

Sec. 9. In all deliberations of the faculty, a majority 
shall be present, and a majority of those present shall 
be necessary to give a decision, which decision, to be 
valid, shall be approved by the president* 

Of the President. 

Sec. 10. To the president is committed the general 
superintendence of the interests and reputation of the 
Institution, which he is bound to promote and maintain 
hy every exertion in his power. 

Sec. 11. He has a right to be present at the recita- 
tion of any class in the College, as often as he may see 
proper, and to conduct or hear the recitation if he 
choose. 

He is charged with instruction in the several bran- 
ches comprehended in his professorship, including Lo-* 
GiCK, Rhetobick, Mental and Moral Philosophy. 

-Sec. 12. He will also take such other branches of in* 
struction in the College into his own hands as he may 
judge that the number of other teachers in the Institu- 
tion, and his own convenience render expedient. 

-Sec. 13. He is ex-officio, president of the faculty, 
when present with them, and also the administrator of 
their decisions in cases of discipline. 

Sec. 14. He is to preside at examinations and com- 
mencements, and to confer all honours. 

-Sec. 1 5. It shall be the duty of the president to take 
charge of the College generally, to superintend the 
building, grounds, and moveable property belonging to 
it, to report to the committee of repairs, such damages as 
may need repair, and to report to the trustees, as occa- 
sion shall require, concerning the state of the College, 
and concerning such measures as may conduce to its fu* 
ture prosperity. 

Sec. 16. The president shall furnish the secretary of 



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the board, two months previous to each annual com- 
mencement, a report of the names of the students who 
shall have attended the College during the session, design 
nating their class, and the length of time they are expec- 
ted to continue. 

Of the Professor of Mathematicks and JVatural Philosophy^ 

Sec, 17. A professorship of mathematicks and natu- 
ral philosophy shall be, and is hereby established, and a 
professor shall be from time to time therein employed. 

Sec, 18. He is to conduct the studies of youth in 
those branches of science which belong to his depart- 
ment, and such other as may be assigned to him by the 
faculty. 

Sec, 19. He is charged with the care and preserva- 
tion of such parts of the philosophical apparatus, while 
in his use, as are necessary in the instruction of the 
youth in his department. 

Sec, 20. He is to convene and preside in the faculty 
in the absence of the president, and at those times pos- 
sess the same power. 

Of the Professor of Languages, 

Sec, 21. A professorship of languages shall be and is 
hereby established, and shall be filled from time to time 
by a suitable professor* 

Sec, 22. To his charge is specially committed the 
instruction of the several classes of the College in the 
Greek and Latin languages, Grecian and Roman anti- 
quities, and such other branches as shall be assigned or 
allotted to him by the faculty. In this he shall be assis- 
ted, if necessary, by tutors. 

Sec, 23. He shall have power to convene the faculty 
in the absence of the president, and professor of mathe- 
maticks: and upon those occasions shall preside, and 
have the same powers as are given to the president. 

Of the Professor of Chymistry, 
Sec, 24. There shall be, and hereby is established, a 



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professorship of Chymistry and Botany, which shall be 
filled by a competent professor of those sciences. 

Sec. 25. It shall be his duty to deliver annually a 
course of lectures on the subjects embraced in his pro- 
fessorship, accompanied with experiments, and com- 
mencing at such time, and comprising such number of 
lectures as the faculty shall from time to time deem expe- 
dient. 

Sec, 26. Students in the junior and senior classes, 
and citizens who are not members of the College, shall 
have the privilege of obtaining tickets of the professor 
of Chymistry, and attending his course of lectures; and 
any students belonging to the Institution who are not en-« 
rolled in the senior or junior class, may attend the Chy- 
mical course with permission from the faculty. 

Of Tutors, 

Sec. 27. When necessary, tutors shall be appointed 
by the board of trustees, or superintending committee; 
and, when appointed by the committee, the committee 
shall have the power to affix their salary. 

Sec. 28. It shall be their duty to instruct such clas- 
ses, and to hear such recitations as the faculty shall di- 
rect. They shall also carefully note the conduct of the 
students, and report delinquents, that they may be dealt 
lyith pursuant to the laws of the College. 

ARTICLE III. 

Of Classes in the College. 

Sec. 1. There shall be established in the Collegiate 
Department, four classes, which shall be numbered and 
known as follow, viz. the first class shall be styled, Tlie 
Freshmen Class; the second class to be staled, The 
Sophomore ; the third class to be styled, The Junior; and 
the fourth class to be styled. The Senior Class. 

Sec. 2. Students to be entitled to the higher honors 
of the College must remain one year in each of the pre- 
ceding classes, and can not be passed from a lower to a 



higher class without having stood a puhlick examination 
on all the studies of his class, and must possess,^ in the 
opinion of the faculty, such attainment as will entitle 
bim to promotion. 

Sec. 3. To be admitted into the freshmen class, the 
candidate must sustain an approved examination before 
the faculty, in the various studies preparatory to admis- 
sion, as contained in a subsequent part of these regula- 
tions. He must also possess a good moral character, 
and have obtained the collector's certificate of his ha-* 
ving paid all dues to the College required in advance. 

Sec. 4. A student desirous of being admitted into a 
class in advance of the freshmen class, may be admitted 
accordingly, if he shall have obtained a knowledge of 
all the studies required of the class or classes which he 
wishes to pass over, or their equivalent, to be determi- 
ned by the faculty. 

Sec, 5. As there may, be persons, not intending to 
pursue a regular course of education, who may be desi- 
rous of attending the lectures and recitations, the facul- 
ty may, by a vote, admit such irregular students, upon 
their paying the same college charges as the class to 
which they may be attached. 

Sec. 6. The senior class, in order to receive the 
honors of the College, must stand an approved exami^ 
nation, on all studies attached to the before mentioned 
classes, and their examination shall take place at least 
one day previous to the commencement. 

ARTICLE IV. 

Of Instruction and Study^ 

Sec. 1. The students shall diligently attend to their 
studies at their respective apartments, excepting half an 
hour after breakfast, and from twelve to one o'clock, 
which shall be allotted to exercise, and also excepting 
such hours as shall be by the faculty appointed for reci- 
tation. 

Sec. 2. No student shall attend the instruction of any 



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person who may undertake to teach any language, sci- 
ence, or art, in the town of Augusta, unless such tea- 
cher be approved, and have liberty of teaching such 
student, granted by the trustees: Provided^ that the pre- 
sident of the College may give permission to attend upon 
an instructer of merely the polite accomplishments. 

Sec, 3. The students shall regularly and seasonably 
attend the publick and private lectures and recitations 
enjoined by the rules of the faculty, or from time to time 
announced by the president, or by any of the professors. 
They shall use their best diligence in preparing them- 
selves for their exercises in the branches assigned them, 
and shall perform them with care and precision. 

Sec. 4. The several instructers, as often as they 
deem it expedient, may require their pupils to review 
and recapitulate the whole or any portion of their stu- 
dies; and for better ascertaining and promoting the im- 
provement of the students, they are desired at each re- 
citation or private lecture to satisfy themselves respec- 
tively, as far as practicable, that each student has duly 
studied the lesson assigned. For this purpose they are 
requested to direct, when convenient, the attendance of 
one or more of a whole class to perform and exercise, 
at other than the stated times. 

See* 5. The students in the Collegiate Department, 
in alphabetical order, not less than five each week, shall 
perform publick exercises in speaking, under the superin- 
tendence of the president. Each student shall declaim 
in English; he shall present his piece to the president, 
in writing, some time in the w^eek, previous to its deli- 
very, and immediately after give him a fair copy. Tem- 
porary absence from the College shall not excuse a stu- 
dent from this exercise. 

Sec, 6. Every professor shall cause an exact roll to 
be kept of each class attending upon his instructions. — 
The roll shall be punctually called over at the hour of 
attendance, and all absentees marked. An abstract of 
this roll, so far as it relates to each student, shall be 
transmitted, semi-annually, to his parent or guardian* 

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Sec, 7. When a student is absent from recitation 
without the express permission of his instructer, he shall 
be called to an account for it in the presence of his class ; 
and if he have not a sufficient excuse to justify the ab- 
sence, he shall be reprimanded by his instructer, accor- 
ding to the nature of the offence ; and if such absences 
become frequent with a student, he shall be reported to 
the faculty, and by their decision be subjected to such 
punishment as may be deemed necessary. 

Sec. 8. The hours of attendance in College shall be 
from nine until twelve in the forenoon, and from two till 
five in the afternoon. 

Sec, 9. At the close of each session of the College, 
every class shall be strictly examined on all the studies 
of the session. The faculty may also appoint quarterly 
examinations of all, or any of the classes, whenever 
they may judge it expedient. These examinations 
shall be publick, so far as to admit, not only the trustees, 
but all gentlemen of liberal education, who may choose 
to be present, and such other persons as the faculty or 
trustees may invite. 

Sec, 10. Those who shall appear to the faculty, on 
examination, to be deficient in their studies, shall be 
dealt with according to the nature and extent of the de- 
ficiency. If the deficiency be great, the student in 
whom it appears shall be put into a lower class. If it 
be such as can be remedied by diligence, the faculty 
may allow the ensuing vacation for improvement, and 
examine the party at the beginning of the succeeding 
session. If proof of negligence appear in any one, 
though it may not have been productive of gross defi- 
ciency, the faculty may mention, before the class, the 
names of such persons, and administer a reproof to 
them, and an exhortation to greater diligence in future. 
Those, on the contrary, who shall appear to excel, shall 
be mentioned with approbation. And in awarding all 
literary honours and distinctions, a regard shall be had 
to the moral conduct, and orderly behaviour of the can- 
didates for such distinctions. 



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Sec, 11. Competitions in the various branches of li- 
terature, and exercises of the College, may be appoint- 
ed by the faculty, at such times, and subject to such re- 
gulations, as they may judge most expedient. 

ARTICLE V. 

Of Examinations — Exhibitions — Academick Honours* 

Sec, 1. There shall be annually, a publick examina- 
tion, in presence of the faculty, a committee of the trus- 
tees, and such other persons as may choose to attend, be- 
ginning on the last Monday preceding the first Wednes- 
day in August, in the studies of the preceding year. — 
Every member of a class shall attend punctually, and or- 
derly, and answer such questions as the president, or 
any professor, or any member of the committee of trus- 
tees, may propose. 

Sec, 2. The examinations are to be close and rigid, 
every student being left to stand or fall on his proper 
merits; due tenderness being at the same time shown, 
that the effects of perturbation may be avoided as much 
as possible. 

Sec. 3. No student, who may be deficient in the stu- 
dies of the preceding year, shall be permitted on any 
account whatever, to proceed to a higher class. 

Sec, 4. A student not promoted to the next higher 
class, may be allowed to take the lowest place therein, 
if, in the opinion of the faculty, during the first quarter 
of the next session, he shall have compensated for his 
deficiency. 

Sec. 5. A student who shall be found incompetent to 
his studies, or negligent in tbem, shall be dismissed from 
the College; and want of sufficient progress to entitle 
him to proceed to a higher class, after remaining two 
years in the preceding one, shall always be considered 
as conclusive proof of such incompetency or negligence. 

Sec, 6. Honorary testimonials, decorated with the 
seal of the College, and with suitable devices, shall be 
adjudged at the annual examination, to such students as 
may distinguish themselves. 



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Sec. 7. The names of all students who shall obtain 
honorary testimonials, shall be announced by the presi- 
dent at the publick commencement; and he shall also 
confer those testimonials, in presence of the assembly. 

Sec, 8. Two weeks shall be allowed for revision, 
previous to the annual examination ; and a month to the 
senior class previous to the commencement, 

ARTICTLE VI. 

Commencement — Vacation — Division of the year* 

Sec, 1, The annual commencement for conferring 
degrees, shall be held on the Thursday immediately suc- 
ceeding the first Wednesday in August in each year; 
and shall be followed by a vacation of six weeks. 

Sec, 2. The academical year shall be divided into 
two sessions, the first of which shall begin on Monday 
after the lapse of six weeks from the commencement, 
and continue twenty-one weeks; at the end of which 
there shall be a vacation of four weeks. The second 
session shall begin on Monday after the lapse of four 
weeks from the end of the first, and continue until the 
commencement. 

Sec, 3. No student shall be admitted to any acade- 
mical honour, or degree, without giving satisfactory evi- 
dence on examination, that he has gone successfully 
through the course of studies prescribed; nor shall any 
one receive honour?, or graduate, who shall refuse to 
perform at commencement the exercise assigned him by 
the faculty. 

Sec, 4. Every student, having a part assigned him in 
the performances at commencement, shall lodge in the 
hands of the president, by such time as the president 
may direct, a fair copy of the piece he has prepared. — 
If any one shall make additions or alterations to what 
is contained in the copy, delivered by him to the presi- 
dent, or shall presume to deliver any thing in publick 
•which he has been directed to omit, he shall not be suf- 
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Sec, 5, Previous payment of all debts due the Col- 
lege, and the replacing of all books taken bj the candi- 
date from the library, are required before any honorary 
testimonial, or degree, is conferred. - 

Sec* 6, All who remain in the College, or in Augus» 
ta,in time of vacation, shall be subject to the same laws 
enjoining orderly conduct, as during the time of the ses- 
sions. 

Sec, 7. No student shall absent himself from the Col- 
lege, without leave granted, for some good reason, by 
the instructers whose exercises he is required to attend; 
nor shall he prolong his absence beyond the time grant- 
ed him. If a student be absent from the College during 
three months, his relation to it shall cease, unless some 
cause shall be assigned satisfactory to the faculty. 

ARTICLE VII. 

Tuition Fees, 

Sec, 1. The price of tuition in the Academick De- 
partment shall be six dollars per session in specie, and in 
the Collegiate Department, seven dollars and fifty cents 
in specie for the session, or fifteen dollars for the year. 

Sec, 2. Tuition fees shall be paid half yearly in ad- 
vance, on or before the first day commencing each ses- 
sion. If a student shall be admitted beyond six weeks 
after the commencement of the term, he shall be enti- 
tled to a proportionate abatement; but no deduction 
shall be made for time lost by any student after his ad- 
mission. 

Sec. 3. Every person before he is admitted to an ac- 
tual standing in any class, shall obtain from the secreta- 
ry of the College, receipts or certificates by which it 
shall appear that he has complied with the existing or- 
ders of the trustees, in regard to tuition fees and college 
dues: which certificates or receipts he shall produce to 
that iustructer or officer of the College, who shall have 
at that time, the instruction of the class into which he is 
desirous to enter; and if any officer admit a student to 

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the recitations of his class without such receipts or cei*' 
tificates, such officer shall be responsible to the trustees 
for the tuition fees and dues of such student: and this 
rule shall also be observed in regard to every student at 
the commencement of every new session of the Qollege. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

Deportment, 

Sec. 1. Every student shall observe the strictest de- 
corum while in the class, neither doing or countenan- 
cing any thing which would incommode his instructer, 
or divert the attention of his fellow students. 

Sec. 2. No student shall possess or exhibit any inde- 
cent picture, or purchase or read in the College any las- 
civious or immoral book; and if any student shall be 
convicted thereof, or of lying, profaneness, playing at 
tinlawful games, or other gross immoralities, he shall be 
punished according to the nature of the oflence. 

Sec. 3. No student shall quarrel with, insult, or abuse 
a fellow student, nor any other person whatever. No 
student shall go to a tavern, nor any other publick house, 
for the purpose of entertainment or amusement, with- 
out permission from a;n instructer, paRent, or guardian; 
nor shall he associate or keep company with persons of 
bad character* ^ 

Sec. 4. No hallooing, loud talking^ whistling or jum- 
ping, or other disturbing noise or act, shall be permitted 
in the buildings of the College, nor disorderly conduct 
in the town, by a student. 

Sec. 5, If any student, offending against the laws 
should presume to leave the College without a certifi- 
cate from the faculty, of his conduct and standing whilst 
there, it shall be at the discretion of the faculty to make 
the name of such offender publick, with the nature and 
degree of the offence. 

Sec. 6. No student shall engage, or assist in any the- 
atrical performances, unless permitted by the faculty. 

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whoni they have intercourse, with decency and respect^ 
and shall on all occasions regard the commands of their 
instructers. 

Sec. 8. It shall be and hereby is, required of all the 
students who are instructed in the College building, to 
attend publick worship in Augusta, an every Sabbafh in 
the morning, and as far as practicable in the afternoon ; 
and at all times and places, to conduct with sobriety 
and strict decorum on the Sabbath. 

ARTICLE IX. 

Crimes and Punishments, 

Sec, 1, The punishments of the College are as foh 
low: 1st. Private admonition or reprehension — admo- 
nition before the professors and instructers. 2d. Admo- 
nition before the class of the Offender, or in the presence 
of a select number of persons. 3d. Publick admonition 
and reprehension in the presence of all the students. — - 
4th. Degradation in the class, or to a lower class. 5th* 
Assigning a particular seat to the offender, for a time* 
6th. Putting the offender on a state of probation. 7th« 
Suspension from the privileges of the institution. 8th, 
Dismission from the College without expulsion—and 
lastly, Pubhck expulsion. Except the first and second, 
which may be applied by any instructer, the apphcation 
of the other punishments, according to the degree of the 
offence, shall be made by the faculty or trustees, as 
heretofore directed. 

Sec, 2. The punishments denounced, as well as the 
conduct prescribed for the students, are applicable to 
the Academick Department. The students in that 
school are also liable to the use of the rod, when indis- 
pensible, in the judgment of the instructers. 

Mode of Punishments. 

Sec, 3. Complaint of misdemeanor in a student, 
must be made, in the first instance, to the president or 
one of the professors, who, unless the offence be so fla- 
grant as, in his judgment, to require the interference of 



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the faculty, shall privately admonish the ofTcnder; and 
upon failure of success, may at his discretion, bring the 
subject before the faculty, who may, if they deem it ex- 
pedient, bring it before the trustees. 

Sec, 4. A student, whom it may be necessary to 
bring before the faculty, or trustees, shall have due no- 
tice of the time and place of meeting, and shall be al- 
lowed to defend himself. 

Sec, 5. When a charge of misconduct shall be pre- 
ferred against a student, the faculty shall have power to 
require the attendance of any other student to testify 
against the delinquent: and it shall be the duty of such 
witness to disclose his knowledge of facts touching such 
charge, on pain of being guilty of contumacy, in case 
of his refusal: provided that no student shall be compel- 
led to give testimony which may condemn himself. 

Sec. 6, All publick punishment shall be according to 
a written form which shall be read aloud, by the presi- 
dent, or one of the professors, r/rid shall be enlered on 
the records of the faculty, or trustees. 

Sec. 7. Fines may be inflicted by the officers in ca- 
^es hereafter mentioned, when deemed necessary. 

Sec. 8. In all cases where the penalty is not specified, 
the selection and application of any of these punish- 
ments shall be by a vote of the faculty. The faculty 
shall judge whether the circumstances of the crime ex- 
tenuate or aggravate its nature, and proportion the pe- 
nalty accordingly. The repetition of offences shall be 
considered as an aggravating circumstance. 

Sec. 9. Every student shall be subject to the laws 
and government of the College, and show in speech and 
behaviour, all proper tokens of respect to the presi- 
dent, trustees, professors, preceptors and tutors of the 
College. Every transgression of this law, by any con- 
tempt of their persons or authorit}^, by reproachful lan- 
guage, or in any other way, shall be punished by any 
censure, even to expulsion, as the nature and aggrava*- 
tion of the ofience may require. 



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Sec* 10, If any student shall assault, wound or strike 
the president, a professor, or tutor, or shall designedly 
break their windows or doors, or offer them any such 
like abuse, insult, or indignity, he shall be expelled. 

Sec. 11. If any student, for the purpose of obtaining 
spiritous liquor, or for expensive entertainment, shall 
frequent any tavern or victualling house in Augusta, or 
be there guilty of any disorderly behaviour, or associ- 
ciate with any person of dissolute morals, after the fa- 
culty have endeavoured to reform him, or be guilty of 
drunkenness, he shall be punished, according to the na- 
ture and aggravation of the offence. 

Sec, 12. If any student shall quarrel with, insult, 
abuse, or wilfully injure a fellow student, or any other 
person, he shall, upon conviction, be punished according 
to the nature of his fault. 

Sec. 1 3. No student is allowed to keep any fire arms, 
gunpowder, dirk, or other offensive weapon in College, 
nor go a gunning, sailing, or skaiting on the river, with- 
out leave from the president, or a professor. And if 
any student shall fire a gun, or pistol, within the Col- 
lege walls, or yard, or near the College, he shall be pu-- 
nished as the faculty may direct. 

Sec. 14. Every student found guilty of making tu- 
multuous or indecent noises, to the disturbance of the 
College, or town, or any of its inhabitants; or of ma- 
king bonfires or illuminations, or playing off fire works, 
or in any way aiding or abetting in the same, shall be 
liable to a publick censure, or to be otherwise punished, 
according to the degree and aggravation of the offence. 

Sec. 15. If any combination or agreement, to do any 
unlawful act, or to forbear, or prevent a compliance 
with any injunction from lawful authority in the Col- 
lege, shall be entered into by the students; or if any 
enormity, disorder, or act of disobedience, shall be per- 
petrated by them, in consequence of such combination 
or agreement, in both or either of these cases, such of- 
fenders shall upon due conviction, be punished as shall 
be judged necessary for the preservation of good order 
m the College. 



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See, 16. If any student shall refuse to give evidence 
Respecting the breach of any College laws, or any mat- 
ter under examination, or shall falsify thereon, or false- 
ly declare himself ignorant of the matter, he may be pu- 
nished by admonition, publick confession, or as the cir- 
cumstances of the crime may require. 

Sec. 17. The president, or any of the officers, may 
require suitable assistance from any student or students, 
for the preservation of the good order of the College ; 
and if any one, so required, shall refuse, or neglect to 
give his assistance, it shall be looked upon as a great 
contempt of the authority of the College, and be pu- 
nished by publick confession, suspension, or expulsion. 

Sec. 1 8. Immediate and implicit obedience shall be 
yielded by every student to the lawful commands of 
every officer of the Faculty, under penalty of punish- 
ment for contempt of authority. And every student 
shall appear personally before the president, or any pro- 
fessor of the College, when required so to do, under the 
same penalty. 

Sec. 19. If a student, upon receivirig any censure, 
shall insult the government of the College, his punish- 
ment shall be enhanced ; and if any other student shall 
insult the officers, in consequence of their infficting such 
punishment, he shall be severely punished. 

Sec, 20. If any student shall have any censure pas- 
sed upon him, less than suspension, and shall thereupon, 
without permission regularly obtained, absent himself 
from College, or College exercises; or if any student, 
from resentment at any punishment, whatever, of his 
fellow students, shall absent himself without permission 
as aforesaid, from College, or College exercises, such 
student shall be deemed to have renounced his relation 
to the College ; and shall not be again received, without 
the express vote of the faculty, upon application made 
for that purpose: provided, that if upon application, the 
consent of the faculty shall be denied, an appeal may 
be made to the trustees. 

<^ec, 21. No student shall exhibit to any other au- 



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thority than that of the College, a complaint against 
any of the officers, or resident members thereof, for any 
injury cognizable by the authority of the College, be- 
fore he has sought for redress to the faculty; and, in 
case of their denying him relief, to the corporation; 
• and if any student, or his parent or guardian for him^ 
shall, without such apphcation made, or contrary to the 
determination of the corporation, carry said complaint 
to any other authority, such student shall forthwith be 
expelled the College. 

Sec, 22. Every judgment of suspension, or expuL 
sion, shall be in writing, and be published in such man- 
ner as the faculty or trustees shall direct. Copies of all 
such judgments, on application to the president, shall 
he granted to all persons concerned. 

Sec, 23. As students may be guilty of disorders or 
misdemeanors, against which no express provision is 
made in these laws, a discretionary, or parental authori- 
ty must necessarily be lodged with the faculty : therefore, 
where no statute is particulc^rly provided for a case that 
may occur, they are to exercise this discretionary autho- 
rity, and to punish accordingly. 

Sec, 24. If any damage shall be wantonly done by 
any student to the buildings, philosophical apparatus, or 
other property of the College, he shall pay double the 
expense of the repairs, to be assessed by the faculty. 

ARTICLE X, 

Of the Librarian and Library/. 

Sec, 1. A librarian shall be appointed annually, by 
the faculty, from among the trustees, instructers, or stu- 
dents. He shall arrange and number the books belohg- 
ing to the library, make a catalogue thereof, and cau?e 
repairs to be made, when directed by the faculiy. He 
shall also record in his catalogue the name of the donor 
of any book that may be presented to the College, and 
the value thereof. 

Sec. 2. No person, except a professor, officer, or 



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trustee, shall be admitted to the library, or to handle or 
use the books. 

Sec. 3. Those students who shall pay to the treasur- 
er, half yearly, seventj^-five cents, shall be entitled to 
the use of the books, except such as the faculty shall 
direct not to be taken out of the Ubrary. 

Sec, 4. The librarian is responsible for the contribu- 
tions of the students, to whom he shall give the use of 
the books. He is to attend at the Ubrary, at twelve 
o'clock, on every Friday, except during vacation, to de- 
liver and receive books, of which he shall keep an ac- 
count, as well as of the condition in which the books 
are, when taken out and returned. 

Sec, 5, No student, or other person, except members 
of the faculty, or board of trustees, shall be allowed to 
take out of the library, at one time, more than one folio, 
two quartos, or two octavos, or smaller volumes; which 
shall be returned before they shall have liberty to take 
out any other books. 

Sec. 6. The librarian shall permit no student to keep 
ji book longer than as follows, viz. a foUo, six weeks; a 
quarto, four weeks ; an octavo, two weeks ; and every 
other book one week. No book received from the li- 
brary shall be lent, and he who receives it shall be an- 
swerable for every injury done to it while in his posses^ 
sion: if lost, defaced, or torn, he shall pay a sum pro- 
portionable to the damage incurred, or replace it, at the 
choice of the faculty. 

Sec, 7. Any person, except a member of the faculty, 
or board of trustees, who shall keep a book, smaller 
than an octavo, longer than one week, shall be fined 
twelve and a half cents— if longer than two weeks, 
twenty-five cents — if longer than three weeks, thirty- 
seven and a half cents, and in like proportion for a lon- 
ger period. The fine for keeping an octavo longer than 
two weeks, shall be twenty-five cents— for three weeks, 
fifty cents — for four weeks, seventy-five cents-, and in 
like proportion for a longer period. For a quarto vo- 
lume kept longer than four weeks, the fine shall be £e-= 



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venty-five cents — for five weeks, one hundred and fifty 
cents — for six weeks, two hundred and twenty-five cents, 
and in Uke proportion for a longer period. For keeping 
a foho longer than six weeks, the fine shall be one dol- 
lar — for seven weeks, two dollars — for eight weeks, three 
dollars, and in like proportion for a longer period. 

Sec, 8. No person on whom a fine shall have been 
imposed, shall be allowed to take a book from the libra- 
ry, till the fine be paid. 

Sec, 9. The members of the faculty may retain in 
their keeping, books of science belonging to the bran- 
ches which they teach, as long as to the librarian it shall 
appear that the general interests of the institution will 
permit; provided, that the time does not exterd beyond 
that session of the College, during which the books shall 
be taken out of the library. 

Sec, 10. No person, not immediately connected with 
the College, shall be permitted to take a book from the 
library, without being a regular subscriber for a year, at 
the sum of five dollars, and depositing with the librarian 
the value of the whole set to which the book belongs ; 
and the amount deposited shall be forfeited immediate- 
ly after the expiration of the time allowed for keeping 
it, if it be not punctually returned. 

Sec, 11. No book shall be permitted to be carried 
more than a mile from the College. 

Sec, 12. If the trustees, or officers of the College, 
on any occasion, shall desire to consult a book in the li- 
brary, without taking it from the room, it shall be the 
duty of the librarian to attend them for that purpose. 

Sec, 13. No books shall be taken from the library 
during the regular vacations of the College, except 
with the consent of the superintending committee. 

Sec, 14. At the beginning of each session, semi-an- 
nually, the librarian shall render to the treasurer an ac- 
count of all students who shall have had the use of the 
library during the preceding term; and shall also pay 
over to him, any money that he may have received on 

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account of the library, during the same period. No 
fine shall be inflicted on any person under this article, 
amounting to more than twenty-five per cent, above the 
value of the book, or set for v^^hich the fine is imposed. 
The librarian shall be allowed twenty-five per cent, 
on the profits of the library, and a free use of the books 
for his individual improvement; but he is to be answera- 
ble for any loss, or injury done to the books while in his 
possession, out of the library. 

ARTICLE XI. 

Of the Academick Department. 

Sec. 1. The course of instruction in the Academick 
Department, shall include Reading, Writing, Arithme- 
lick, EngUsh Grammar, Geography ; and so much of the 
Latin and Greek languages as is required for admission 
into the Freshmen Class."^ 

Sec. 2. For the management of this Departm.ent 
there shall be appointed a preceptor, and such other 
person or persons to assist, as the trustees, or the super- 
intending committee, in the recess, shall deem expedi- 
ent. 

Sec. 3. The laws adopted for the Collegiate Depart- 
ment, shall in all cases govern this Department, so far as 
they are applicable. 

Sec. 4. No pupil will be received into this Depart- 
ment for a less term than one session ; and it shall be re- 
quired that all pupils upon first entering, be accompa- 
nied by a parent, guardian, or some friend, or by a let- 
ter, stating the time for which they have entered, and 
the studies they are desired to pursue. 

* Those who are studying the languages, preparatory to enter- 
iog the Freshmen Class of the Collegiate Department, are consid- 
ered as belonging to this department, though forming a separate 
class: and will be instructed by such teacher, and in such part of 
the College building, as the superintending committee and faculty 
may from time io time direct. 



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Sec, 5. There shall be in this Department, one va- 
cation of three weeks, inrimediately succeeding the an- 
nual commencement, and one of two weeks immediate- 
ly succeeding the end of the first session. 

Sec, 6. This Department shall have two sessions in 
each year, the first to begin on Monday after the lapse 
of three weeks from the commencement, and continue 
twenty-four weeks; the second to begin on Monday ajp- 
ter the lapse of two weeks from the end of the first ses- 
sion, and continue until the ensuing commencement. 

Sec. 7. The Academick Department shall be under 
the direction of the preceptor, and subject to the in- 
spection and advice of the president. It is required of 
the preceptor to preside in his department, to instruct 
the pupils belonging to it, and to do all in his power to 
promote its prosperity. 

ARTICLE XII. 

Engagement to keep the Laws* 

Sec, 1. To prevent all excuses arising from igno- 
rance of the laws of the College, every student upon 
application for admission, shall be presented by the pre- 
sident, or in his absence by a professor, with a copy of 
the laws of Augusta College; and the president or pro- 
fessor, thus presenting it, shall write on a blank leaf 
thereof an order for his admission to the privileges of 
the College. The copy of the By-laws thus presented, 
shall be carefully preserved by such student, and at the 
commencement of each session be presented to the pro- 
fessor of the class to which he may be attached, as his 
passport; and the professor shall endorse thereon the 
time of such presentation, together with his own signa- 
ture. 

Sec, 2. Every student, after having had the said laws 
one week in his possession, shall be called before the 
president, or principal professor, and questioned as fol- 
lows. Have you read and understood these laws? Do 
you consider yourself in duty bound to obey them? — 
which bQing responded to in the affirmative, the student 



shall be required so subscribe a declaration, to be kept 
by the president, or one of the professors in a book pre- 
pared for the purpose, and in the following words, viz. 

We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, being ad- 
mitted as students of Augusta College, in the town of 
Augusta, county of Bracken, and state of Kentucky, 
having read with care the By-laws of said College, pub- 
lished by order of the trustees andfaculty, in pamphlet 
form, do hereby declare, upon our honour, that we ac- 
quiesce therein, and will obey them ; and that we will 
not be guilty of profane cursing or swearing, card-play- 
ing, or any unlawful gaming at which money or pro- 
perty may be hazarded, nor of any indecent language, 
or disrespectful conduct towards the trustees, the presi- 
d.ent, professors, preceptors, or tutors. 

ARTICLE XIII. 

Of the Primary School, 

Sec, 1. There shall be appended to the College, a 
third department to be called. The Primary School ; for 
the instruction of pupils in the rudiments of English 
education. 

Sec, 2. This school shall Be taught in the building it 
now occupies, or in such other place as the trustees, or 
superintending committee, may from time to time pro- 
vide for the purpose. 

Sec, 3. It shall be provided with a competent tea- 
cher, who shall take charge of the pupils, and instruct 
them in Orthography, Reading, Writing, and the rudi- 
ments of Arithmetick. 

Sec, 4. In this Department the year shall be divided 
into quarters, and the price of tuition shall be two dol- 
lars per quarter, payable to the teacher; and the school 
shall have four weeks of vacation in the year, at such 
time, or times, as the teacher with the faculty of the 
College may deem advisable. 

Sec. 5. The school shall open in the Summer at half 
past eight o'clock in the morning, and close at half past 



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five in the evening, with an intermission from twelve Un- 
til two o'clock; and in Winter it shall open at nine and 
close at four, with an intermission from twelve o'clock 
until one* 

Sec, 6. The rules and regulations of the Academick 
Department, shall govern the Primary School, so far as 
thej are applicable to it. 

ARTICLE XIV> 

Geyieral Regulations, 

Sec, 1. The president of the College shall occupy 
the room in the north-east corner of the College buil- 
ding, on the second floor; the professor of mathemat- 
icks, the one in the north-west corner; the professor of 
languages, the one in the south-west corner; the profes- 
sor of chymistry, the one in the south-east corner;^' and 
the preceptor of the Academick Department, the room 
in the south-east corner, on the first floor. The other 
rooms in the College, besides those occupied by the libra- 
ry and philosophical apparatus, shall be used at the dis- 
cretion of the faculty, subject however, to the direction 
of the trustees. 

Sec, 2. No student, belonging to one department or 
school, will be permitted to enter any room allotted to 
any other department, or school, except upon business. 

Sec, 3. It is made the duty of each professor, precep- 
tor, and tutor, to keep a book in which he will register 
the name of every student in the department or school 
under his care, the time of entering, the time for which 
he is entered, and the residence of the parent or guar- 
dian who is responsible for tuition fees — an abstreict of 
which, at the end of every quarter shall by them be de- 
livered to the collector, whose duty it shall be to make 
out the accounts due, and place them in the hands of 
'some person to be collected. 

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ARTICLE XV. 
Concerning Eocpenses of the Students 

It is desirable that the expenses of education at our In- 
stitution, should in all cases, be rendered as moderate as 
possible. It has often been a subject of just complaint^ 
that the expenses of a collegiate education were such, 
that none but the sons of the wealthy could enjoy the 
advantages of it* While our College is open for all such, 
and has an extensive patronage from that source, w« 
wish it kept open also for those whose means are more 
limited, and so far as practicable, to make it subsejvient 
to the interests of all our citizens. With this view, the 
following regulations were adopted at the meeting of the 
Trustees, held on the 2d of November, 1827, as a part of 
the by-laws. 

Whereas for the general good of community, and for 
the purpose of accomplishing the original design of the 
founders of our College, it is indispensably necessary 
that the expenses of the students should be reduced in 
every possible way, and that they be taught and accus- 
tomed to habits of economy ; therefore — 

1st. Resolved — That all monies for the use of stu- 
dents while at Augusta College, shall be placed in the 
hands of such person or persons as shall be officially ap- 
pointed from time to time, with the exception of such a 
Bum as the Trustees or Faculty may allow each student 
for pocket money. And the person or persons with 
whom such deposit shall be made, shall have all bills 
against such students, rendered to him or them; which 
hills shall be paid out of any monies on hand for the sup- 
port of said students: Provided, that in no case shall 
any student make a bill with any merchant for more 
than twenty per cent, on the cost of each article in the 
Atlantick States, in cases of cash payments, nor more 
than thirty-three and a third advance, on a credit. And 
if any such bills be made contrary to these regulations, 
the person or persons holding the monies shall not pay 
them. And furthermore, that tlie reasons for these re- 



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gulations be explained to the students, and that the per 
son or persons receiving such monies make an official 
proposition to each merchant in Augusta, or who shall 
come into it hereafter, to obtain his consent to trade 
with the students under the above regulations. And in 
case any merchant shall decline making such an arrange^ 
ment, on his honour and responsibility, they shall be for- 
bidden to make bills with him, and if made, such bills 
shall be rejected by the proper persons. 

2d. Resolved — That these regulations shall not in- 
clude those students whose parents or guardians can per- 
sonally attend to their pecuniary concerns, or who shall 
appoint any resident citizen to do it for them. 

3d. Resolved — That the person or persons, with 
whom monies may be deposited according to the above 
regulation, may charge two per cent, on all money pas- 
sing through their hands for the use of students, as a 
compensation. 

4th. Resolved — That the Faculty of the College 
shall be, and hereby are, authorized to grant to any stu- 
dent the liberty of managing his own pecuniary concerns 
under the above regulations. 

5th. Resolved — That the President, Professor of 
mathematicks, and the Professor of languages, be, and 
hereby are, appointed to receive deposits for the students, 
and to carry these regulations into effect. 

The foregoing By-laws, Rales and Regulations, will 
be held obligatory upon the trustees of Augusta College, 
the President, Professors, Preceptor, and Tutors ; as they 
also will be upon the students, their parents, guardians, 
and friends, when assented to by them. 

It is desirable and specially recommended, that the 
students avoid whatever is extravagant in dress, and so 
far as practicable, that they dress in domestick manu- 
facture. 

Candidates for admission as members of this Institu- 
tion, are required to furnish evidence of their good mor- 
al character, and if from another College, that they left 
it in an honourable manner. 



Besides honorary testimonials, bestowed upon such 
students as shall irom time to time distinguish themselves 
by their superior progress, the student in the Senior 
Class of each year, who shall be found to excel in the. 
branches of science generally which are huluded in 
the course of studies, shall receive a gold medal, as an 
honour conferred upon him by the Faculty. 

General course of Study » 

FOR ADMISSION INTO THE FRESHMEN CLASS. 

1. English, Latin, and Greek Grammar. 

2. Mair's Introduction to the making of Latin. 

3. Eight books of Caesar's Commentaries. 

4. Six books of Virgil's ^neid. 

5. The four Gospels in the Greek Testament. 

6. Common Arithmetick, so far as to include a thor- 

ough knowledge of Vulgar and Decimal 
Fractions, and the Extraction of Roots. 

FRESHMEN YEAR. 

1. Virgil and the Greek Testament finished. 

2. Cicero's Orations. 

3. Logarithms. 

4. Euchd's Elements of Geometry. 

6, Ancient and Modern Geography with the use of 
maps. 

6. Grasca Minora. 

7. Grecian and Roman Antiquities begun. 
8* Declamation. 

S'OPHOMORE YEAR* 

1. Exercises in writing Latin. 

2. Horace begun. 

3. Day's Algebra. 

4. Plain Trigonometry. 

5. Mensuration. 

6. Xenophon's Cyropaedia, and a part of Homer's 

Iliad. 

7. Ancient and Modern History with Chronology. 

8. Geography reviewed with the use of the Terres= 

trial Globe* 



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9. Grecian and Roman Antiquities. 

10. Declamation. 

JUNIOR Y£AR. 

1. Horace concluded. 

2. Exercises in writing Latin. 

3. Spherical Trigonometry. 

4. Navigation and Surveying. 

5. Homer's Iliad concluded. 

6. Excerpta Latina, — select portions of Greek re-^* 

viewed. 

7. Conick Sections. 

8. Doctrine of Fluxions. 

9. Natural and Experimental Philosophy begun. 

10. Declamation. 

SENIOR YEAR. 

1. Natural and Experimental Philosophy. 

2. Astronomy with the use of the Globes and Pla;v 

etarium. 

3. Hedge's Logick. 

4. Blair's Rhetorick. 

5. Reid's Philosophy of the Mind. 

6. Moral Philosophy. 

7. Exercises in Composition. 

8. Elements of Criticism. 

9. Political Economy. 

10. Paley's Evidences, and Bible recitations. 

11. Forensicks and Declamation. 

Students wishing to learn the French or Hebrew lan- 
guage, will be instructed in either of them by the Presi- 
sident; and those who learn the French language, or the 
Hebrew, will be permitted to take a shorter course in 
the Greek. 

Besides the course of lectures on Chymistry, lecturer 
will be delivered on some of the other principal sciences, 
under such regulations as may be established by the 
faculty. 



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Extract from an act of the General Assembly of the Common- 
wealth of Kentucky, which ivas passed and approved in 
January, 1827, amending the Charter of Augusta Col- 
lege, 

An act to amend an act, entitled '*An act to incorporate the 
Trustees of Augusta College." 

" Whereas by the first section of an act to incorporate 
the Trustees of Augusta College, approved December 
the seventh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, 
it is provided, that the said College shall be founded and 
maintained forever upon a plan the most liberal, for the 
benefit of youth of every religious denomination and 
every class of citizens, who shall be freely admitted to 
equal privileges and advantages of education, and to all 
the literary honours of the College according to merit; 
and some of the Trustees of said College doubting that 
they have the power under said charter to confer litera- 
ry honours or academical degrees, usual in other Insti- 
tutions of learning; and it being but just that the stu- 
dents in Augusta College should receive such literary 
honours as are conferred in other Colleges: — Therefore, 

Be it enacted by rhe General Assembly of the Com- 
monwealth of Kentucky ; — That the Trustees ot the 
Augusta College, together with the President and a ma- 
jority of the Professors, shall have the power in open 
assembly, as has been accustomed in like cases, to confer 
hydiploma, signed by the President of the Faculty and 
five of the Trustees, the degree of Bachelor or Master of 
Arts, upon all such students, if such there be, as the said 
Trustees, President, and Professors aforesaid, shall ad- 
judge to have merited the honours of the College, by 
their virtue and erudition, manifested in their conduct, aid 
upon their examination, as required in the act charter- 
ing said College; and at the same time, to confer any 
Honorary degrees, which, with the like advice shall be ad- 
judged to other gentlemen on account of special merit, 
in as full and ample a manner, as in. any similar Institu- 
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It will be perceived from the foregoing extract, that 
those who receive academical degrees at this College 
are expected to merit them by their virtue and erudition. 
These, therefore, will be made important questions in re- 
lation to all candidates. Students who graduate, will 
be entitled at the end of three years to receive the de- 
gree of Master of Arts, provided their continued pro- 
gress in the sciences, and good character, are such as 
render them worthy of the distinction; but in no case 
will the degree of A. M. or any other degree be con- 
ferred as a mere matter of course. Valuable attain- 
ments, and a corresponding character, will in all cases 
be required. 



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Of the Trustees — ^Meetings, &c. 
Faculty — their duties, &c. - - - - 
Duties of the President, - - - - 
Of the Professor of Mathematicks, 
Of the Professor of Languages, 
^Professor of Chymistry, 
Appoinlment^f Tutors, - - - 

Of Classes in the College, . - - 

Of Instruction and Study, - - - 

Examinations — Exhibitions — Academick honours, 1 5 
Commencement — Vacationr-^Di vision of the Year, 16 
Tuition Fees, - - - - - 

Deportment of the Students, - - - 

Crimes and Punishments, - - - 

Librarian and Library, - 

Academick Department, - - - 

Engagement to keep the Laws, - - - 
Primary School, - - - - - 
General Regulations, - • - 
Concerning Expenses of the Students, 
General course of Study, - - - - 
Amendment of the Charter, - - - 




